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A19026	A prooued practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke, launce, or such other Wherein, is deliuered with all faithfulnesse, not onely the true receipts of such medicines as shall make them bolde, but also sundry familiar examples, such, as may leade them as it were by the hand, to the doyng of the lyke. Heereto is adioyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes, written by Iohn Almenar, a Spanish physition. Also, a commodious collection of aphorismes both English and Latin, taken out of an old written coppy. Published for the benefyte of his countrey, by Wylliam Clowes, mayster in chirurgery. Seene, and allowed, according to the order appoynted.; Prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder	Clowes, William, ca. 1540-1604.; Almenar, Juan de. De morbo Gallico. English. aut	1588 (1588)	STC 5444; ESTC S108101	163,640	298

7. AL the signes of a disease are taken either from things not naturall or from things naturall or from things beside nature From things not naturall thus in what ayre the patient remayneth what meate drinke what exercises hee vseth what sleepe what watchings hee hath From naturall things thus what age he is what is his custome what his profession his strength his complexion c. From things besides nature in three sorts of the action hurt the qualitie altered the excrements chaunged From the action hurt three waies whether it bee the animall vitall or naturall The animall is double sensitiue and motiue The sensitiue is double inward and outward An example from the motiue faculties thus whether and how the whole bodies or the parts can be moued Examples from the outward sensitiue facultie how he heareth seeth smelleth tasteth as what payne he feeleth what he tasteth in his mouth Examples from the inward sensitiue faculties thus what imaginations he hath what iudgement what memorie what dreames Concerning the vitall faculties let them bee inquired in the sixe things not naturall From the naturall actions in two sorts wee gather obseruations from the estate of ministring parts or things ministred Example of the first is how his appetite is his retentiue facultie his digestiue his attractiue his expulsiue to witte how the partie goeth to the stoole maketh water hath the course of flowers vseth venery such like Examples of things ministred are how he is nourished and enquiring of all other actions whether the action bee diminished corrupted or vtterly lost From the qualitie chaunged as how his breath smelleth what sweate what vlcers what wounds what matter what is the colour of his tongue eyes and whole bodie what moysture drinesse roughnesse smoothnesse hardnesse softnesse in the tongue bellie and rest of the bodie From the excrement chaunged as what bee and how much are the excrements of the eyes nose eares mouth what vomiting belching vrine stooles what filthinesse in the head and feete what sweate in the whole bodie yawning stretching loathing may bee referred to the naturall actions which expell sith they proceede of nature labouring to expell From things not naturall thus that he vsed a dyet increasing blood or being practised in delectable things as a Musition or Player or because hee vsed such meate and drinke as engender blood to wit potched Egges stones of Cockes strong wine and such like From naturall things because he is full of flesh of a sanguine complexion young man From things besides nature and first from the action hurt as heauinesse in the eyes head beating in the temples stretching yawning loathing much and deepe steepe troubled sences slow imaginations wearinesse without labour great pulse swift and fast fulnesse of the veynes or arteries From the changed qualitie as rednesse in all the bodie chiefly in the veynes of the eyes fulnesse of them swelling in the mouth From the chaunged excrements as vryne grosse and red darke and red rosie red In egestions there appeareth no signe the spettle is sweete sometime mingled with blood blood issueth out of the nose or the gummes or by menstruall flux or by the Emroydes or other places much sweate stinking like to a Goate red wheales also to these may bee added that the partie dreameth he seeth red things or blood streaming and that he swimmeth therein Therefore 4. Collect. it is read of Galen that he commaunded one to bee let blood who dreamed hee was washed in a tunne of blood others not consenting inioyned him exercise so the partie dyed The signes of Choler from things not naturall as he vsed vehement exercise in hote ayre he vsed hote and drie meates increasing choler From things naturall that he is a cholerick young man From things beside nature and first from the action hurt the patient hath great thirst disquietnesse payne in the right side of the forehead great light doth hurt him hee hath sometime hunger with swoning a weake appetite loathing pricking like to the poynts of néedles raging great byting in the auoyding of excrements and vrine a swift pulse with hardnesse and extension Here may consequently be added touching dreames sith it seemeth to pertaine to the action hurt as that he seeth things of a Citron or fierie colour that he brauleth and sometime dreameth that he flyeth From the qualitie chaunged as yellownesse of the face and eyes as it is in the Jaundies bitternesse of his mouth drinesse and roughnesse of the toong drie nostrels From excrements changed as red vrine Citronlike fierie Saffronlike his stooles like Saffron his spittle bitter his vomit cholerick greene bitter of a Saffron colour moystnesse of the eyes nostrels sharp cholerick little and from the eares not much The signes of flegme from things not naturall as fulnesse of mea●e idlenesse long sleepes from things naturall that he is of a flegmaticke complexion a Fisher salt c. From things beside nature and first from the action hurt little thirstinesse except the flegme be salt weake digestion in the time of health a sharpe appetite much sleepe sluggishnesse idlenesse the partes dissolued heauinesse of the eyes forgetfulnesse paine in the hinder part of the head giddinesse blindnesse ill appetite longing after sharpe and soure things loathing belching heauie payne coldnesse whose hurt is notably perceiued in the head and stomack for there is much flegme gathered as sayth Auicen 13. 3. and Mesue in Appropriat a rare slowe and easie pulse From the qualitie changed as cold sensibly perceiued white colour in the face and bodie the toong ouerwhite too soft fulnesse in the body the face soft and swelled from the excrements changed as vrine white discoloured darke yellow his stooles flegmatick slimie watrish his spittle slimie watrish much and rather harsh then bitter much superfluitie au●ided by the nose and palate his dreames of water snowe rayne and such like which are to be referred to the action not hurt The signes of melancholy first from things not naturall as he vsed much musing care feare c. Also melancholick meates from things naturall that he is of a melancholick complexion often incurring melancholick diseases from things beside nature and first from the action hurt he feeleth heauinesse in his head and rather on the right side his mouth hoate his appetite corrupt and sometime greedie like to a dogge much watching much s●litarinesse paine in the Splen● hardnesse silence many meditations weeping or a desire to weepe a settled countenance sluggishnesse the sides stretched little sleepe if there be not sharpnesse with fleagme or sowernesse in the mouth an ill pulse with hardnesse the bodie decaying From the qualitie chaunged duskinesse or blacknesse appearing in the bodie hearinesse of the bodie the blacke Morphew in the lower eylid that is a most strong signe as saith Auerrois Coll. 4. the eyes being blacke cleare From the excrements changed brine black or darke greene blew his stooles blacke or duskie little spettle

amisse With heart I craue reade viewe and see If better you haue impart it with me Nowe slaunderer say thy worst with malice and defame In God I onely trust all glory to his name A TREATISE OF THE FRENCH POCKS WRITTEN by Iohn Almenar a Spanish Phisition Chap. 1. Of the beginning and definition of this disease IT is concluded by certaine wise men that this disease which amongst the Italians is called Gallicus that is to say the French disease should now bée named Patursa which is by interpretation a disease filthie and Saturnall It is a filthie disease because it maketh women to bee estéemed vnchast and irreligious It is Saturnall because it tooke the beginning from Saturne when he entred into Aries hauing the rest of the heauenly aspects helping thereunto And albeit that influence haue ceassed it is not necessarie that the disease should ceasse because many infected bodies remayned whereby others haue bene infected Hereof it may be concluded that this disease shall continue many yeeres and therefore let men take heede that by other mens example it may bee sayd of them Happie is he whom others daunger make warie The disposition which proceeded of the celestiall influence making impression into the bodies did burne the humours in respect of Aries which signe is hot and drie and after this burning cold and drie humours were engendred on Saturnes part which signe is by nature colde and drie These colde and drie or melancholike humours caried to diuers places bring diuers paines and in the skinne bring forth diuers kinds of pustles or wheales It may be thus defined The French Pockes or Patursa is an vniuersall or popular ill disposition in the parts of the bodie consisting principally in the liuer and veynes and their humors whereof ensue these accidents to wit paynes and wheales in all the bodie The efficient cause is touched when it is called vniuersall or popular that is proceeding from the influence of the heauens the formall when it is called an euill disposition the materiall when it is sayd to be in the parts Also the difference is touched when it is sayd that paynes doe ensue it c. Concerning the ende the bodily Phisition intermedleth not but the spirituall Phisitions affirme them to bee sent for the punishment of sinne Wherefore they which would bee deliuered and escape this let them take heede of sinne and applye their mindes to God for only God cureth infirmities as Mesues sayth in his treatise de Appropriatis Of this definition doe followe many and profitable consequences First that this disease is one and not many as some haue insufficiently affirmed because there could not be giuen one definition of it neither had it alwaies one only efficient cause neither would one kinde of cure agree neither had it one name which is absurd as partly hath appeared alreadie and shall more plainly be shewed hereafter The second consequence is that they are deceiued which thinke they haue found the head or fountaines of this disease to bee the paine in the ioynts and pustles in the face because the former definition agreeth not vnto them Moreouer all the paynes are not in the ioynts neither are all the wheales like red pustles in the face Therefore neither this disease nor the cure of it can be referred vnto them as it shall be hereafter shewed The third consequence that they which cure onely wheales or onely looke to the paynes doe cure imperfectly For who can cure perfectly the h●ada●h or the drinesse of the tongue or thirst which come from a Feauer vnlesse he first ●●●e the Feauer For the accident followeth the disease as the shadow doth the bodie Gal. lib. 3. de accident And therefore the paynes cannot bee cured as the pustles except the disease be first cured because these are either accidents or conioyned sicknesses which follow the principall and doe presuppose it must be first cured as Auicen testifieth tract 1. sen 3. and in many places The fourth consequent if any doe ioyne the cure of the Empiricks with those which thinke they cure orderly as the annoynting of the Empiricks and the purging of the Phisitions yet the cure is insufficient because by those medicines the il complexion which is fixed in the parts cannot be remoued And this was the cause that many haue thought themselues cured when they were not And if any haue bene cared it was by reason that the humors were throughly purged by solutiue medicines and vnctions which auoyded nature was stronger and superiour to the disease and that euill complexion and expelled it This had not so fallen out except the nature had bin strong and the impression little but where the strength was weake and the impression strong this disease could not be expelled This difference in the strength of nature and the impression hath bene the cause that some haue bene cured without medicines some with medicines others could not by any meanes be cured Now wee will shewe that way which both reason and experience hath taught to heale all not onely by remouing with medicines the humor which procureth actuall payne and pustles and hath abilitie prepared to the same but also that euill complexion which infecteth the humors they being first purged as order requireth wherin the treasure of this cure consisteth I could inferre many other consequences but because it is tedious to vse many words in things not auaileable to the cure as Galen sayth 1. de regim acut This shal be sufficient It remayneth to determine of the causes Of the causes of the french Pockes Chap. 2. THere is a twofold kinde of causes because some are first some corporall and those of two sorts partly antecedent partly conioyned That which is first or originall in this disease is twofold whereof the first is the onely influence or corruption of the aire from whence we must charitably thinke that it infected those which were religious The second is conuersation as by kissing and sucking as appeareth in children or by carnall copulation as it hath happened to many very often but by other meanes and chiefly by the influence or corruption of the aire very seldome It may be also caused by other meanes of conuersatiō which I leaue to thy consideration It is sufficient to knowe by experience that this disease is contagious and by probabilitie of reason wherin it is like to other contagious diseases it may be so accōpted Hereupon Auicen saith in the 2. of his 1. concluding his treatise of the dispositions of sicknesses Some there are which passe from one to another as the Leprosye Seabs Pocks pestilent Feuers rotten apostemes Now of the autecedent causes there are foure kindes as there are foure humors which may be the matter of this disease through their ill disposition whereby they are apt to receiue the impression heereof to wit blood choler fleame melancholy The conioyned cause is double one is the cause of the disease and it is the humor which

Birds although they may be permitted yet houshold flesh is better because it is more moyst Amongst Fishes may be allowed such as liue in rockes haue skales liue in good water and of them may be a dish prepared with Almond milke the cummin séeds and a barley ptisane Amongst Hearbs Borage and Buglosse are the best according to the old verse Borage good how sweet is thy food Thou art greene euer decaying neuer Borage doth say I reioyce alway Also Spinage and in processe of time Fennell Parsley ●ingled with Lettuce and Spinage and of these hearbes and cychory may be made a salade with vineger of Grapes All pulse and hearbs except chiches are to be auoyded All meate made of Milke must be eschued yet perhaps Milke may be permitted if the lyuer be not inflamed nor stomack so that the corruption of it is suspected Héereupon sayth Auicenna in the cure of the Leprosie Milke is one of the fittest medicines Now in respect of the affinitie this disease hath with that it may be heerein permitted Sodden or potched Egges agree well Spices to comfort but very little and especially Cinamom may be graunted therefore this powder may be vsed in meate Take Caroway seedes Amss●eds Ameos Parsley Smalladge Marioram Betony Cummin Calamint Penniroiall Hysope Spicknard P●pper of each ℥ i. Maioram Balme Basill Graines Gal●●gall Liquirice of eache ℥ i. This powder is sit for them which haue a weake stomacke and a cold brayne it reioy●eth the heart quickneth the senses and wonderfully comfor●eth the memorie Temperate fruites are not vnméete In actiue things fruites moderately hoate and moyst are co●tienient as ripe swéet Mulberies ripe Grapes swéet Apples Dates and such like which must first be roasted vnder hoare coales also Almonds Damaske Prunes dried Peaches smothed infused in wyne of Pomgranats are good Let his sléepe be moderate for too much hurteth according to Hippocrates 2. aphoris Notwithstanding it is lesse hurtfull to incline to ouermuch sleepe then ouermuch watching but be carefull to make his sleep tēperate for Auicen in the 3. of the 1. ca. 9. saith Moderate sleepe strengthneth nature Let him auoyd sleeping in the after noone vnlesse he haue not slept by reason of payne in the night Moderate motion after meate when the first and second digestion haue auoyded their superfluities is good Neuerthelesse it is safer to offend in too much rest then too much motion especially rest is requisite in taking of medicines therefore the Empiricks keepe them in their beds for then is nature wholy employed to expell the disease Anger rage sorrow feare and care must be auoyded It auayleth to be merrie to reioyce to hope well of health to be confident to vse frendly and louing company Carnall copulation must be moderate and after the third digestion The belly must be soluble if not by nature then by arte each other day taking this clis●er take Mallowes Fumitory Mercurie of each one handfull Borage halfe an handfull make a decoction whereof take sufficient and adde foure ounces of Oyle two drammes of salt let it be ministred fasting For the first intention take of Cassia newly drawne and the Lenitiue electuarie of each fiue drammes with Sugar make a ball to be eaten these may be tempered with Fumitory water or such like You may giue also Manna Cassia of each sixe drammes and temper it with the other for them which are rich or make this clyster Take Beetes Mallowes Camomill flowers of each one handfull boyle them then put to them si●e drammes of Hiera Picra Cassia and Sugar of each one ounce foure ounces of common Oyle two drammes of salt let him take it fasting For the second i●te●●●●n which is the diminishing of the matter take Violets Borrage ana ʒ iii. Liquirice sliced Rasins stoned ana ʒ ii Prunes Sebesten of each fiue in number Senna leaues Epithymu ana ʒ i seeth thē all take heereof so much as will temper Cassia newly extracted Elect Indi of each i. ʒ ss or as much of confect Hamech make a ball with Sugar or temper them as is sayd before or Rec. Pill faetidarum de fumoterrae ana ℈ i. make three pilles with honny of Roses and giue them after Supper or earely in the morning Concerning the third intention which is the digesting of the matter take syrupe of Fumitory and Buglosse of eache sixe drammes of Cychory water Endiue Hoppes of each one ounce and vse this fiue dayes afterward giue the Purgation before set downe and then take another syrupe take syrupe of Stichades i. ℥ of Fumitory ℥ ss Borrage water Hops and Endiue ana ℥ i. When sire or seauen daies are past let him take the solutiue medicines and then a stronger syrupe to wit de Epithymo with Fenell water Take the rootes of Smallage Feuell Parsley Buglosse Ru●cholme Asparagus the pith being taken out Maydenheare Borrageflowers Balme Doder Polypody Thime Rasi●s of each equally boyle them and strayne them adding a little Vmeger and some Sugar let it boyle once againe heereof let the patient drinke one great draught warme if he loath this decoction giue him these waters with Sugar take the water of Ceterach Fenell Borrage Buglosse Fumitory of each one ounce giue it to drinke with a little Sugar But because the matter is so rebellious that it cannot be digested by inward medicines there must be things outwardly applyed which may helpe to digest it so that although the matter be neuer so stubborne yet by inward and outward meanes it may be ouercome And do not maruaile at the applying of outward medicines to digest 〈◊〉 For Gilbertus sayth in the cure of the compound ●ectian Feuer it is requisite to digest the matter by fomentations plaisters and such like therefore keepe this order that in the first and second day the patient take the syrupe on the third day annoynt him with the oyntment afterward described in all parts applying a little of the vnguent lightly vpon the legges armes soales of the feete and palmes of the hands and this to be done when he goeth to bed and let him take his syrupe in the morning so that in the sixt day he hath taken sixe syrupes and hath beene three times annointed and then giue him a solutiue medicine and the humors which ought to be expelled by the mouth shall be diuerted to the lower partes and so shall he escape the hurt in the mouth The dayes following vse it in like sort strengthening the digestion and also the vnguent by adding Triacle Quick●iluer You may also foment those places with the decoction of Melilot rootes of Holyhock and such like vsing this in the morning thus there shall be three wayes to digest the matter syrupes vnctions and fomentations Now followeth the description of the vnguent Take three pound of butter one pound of swines grease neither too new nor too old one ounce and a halfe of Triacle of tenne yeeres olde one ounce of Mithridate two ounces and an halfe of

halfe a dragme of Philoniū may be put to it as the payne requireth But these stupefactiue medicines are to be taken heed of The peeces of greene Gowrdes holden in the mouth are profitable It is good to wash the mouth with milke mingling with it the water of Nightshade or water Lillies I could adde many mo but because no hurt shall befall the mouth if you deale as I haue sayd before I ceasse and come to shewe the way how to auoyde this disease What cautions must bee obserued to escape the French Pockes Chap. 5. THey which are carefull to escape the French Pockes let them first eschue sinne For it is commonly sayd Aduersitie followeth Iniquitie especially let them beware of ryot For it is sayd in the third of Iob Ryot is a deuouring and consuming fire And the spirituall Phisitions doe say that diuers diseases followe diuers sinnes as the quotidian Feauer commeth for pride the Gowte for slouthfulnesse the Leprosie for ryot and so of the rest Seeing therefore this disease is likened to the Leprosie it is to be ascribed to Ryot But because these things perteine to an other Phisition this shal be sufficient Therefore wee counsaile on our behalfe that men beware to conuerse much with them that are infected principally from carnall copulation with an infected woman for this disease is contagious Therefore saith Auicen in the 2. of the 1. in the conclusion of his treatise of diseases Some diseases passe from one to an other as the Leprosie Scabbes small Pocks pestilent Feauers yea rotten Apostumes Sith then this disease is neere to the Leaprosie or Scabbes it must be thought contagious Moreouer such things as do engender ill humors especially melancholy nourishment must be auoyded as was shewed in the order of the sixe things not natural And if it happen the yard be hurt by carnall copulation it must be helped presently with this washing Take Rosemary Sage Camomill of each one handfull boyle them in white Wine to which being strained put two ounces of the Wine of Pomgranats halfe an ounce of hony of Roses wash the yard or infected place with this after spreade vpon it this powder Rec. Litharg auri cerussae ireos nucū cupressi ana ʒ i. make them into powder and apply it after the washing and if this powder be too strong put to it Mastick Myrrh Frankincense of eache one dramme But for more securitie when man or woman hath companied together let them wipe themselues cleane with a cleane lumen cloath and beware the womens cloathes for they are infected and this done yet for more securitie let him or her wash the place with warme water or white Wine for because of the frication of the parts some slyme sticketh to the yard which causeth infection to the yard and the bodie therefore the vse of this order will be good to auoyde that infection filthynesse Certayne difficulties are dissolued which may be propounded touching this disease Chap. 6. IF the reason be demaunded why this disease beginneth in the secret parts 〈◊〉 some fooles annswere that it commeth by reason the humors in that place are most méete to be corrupted but if this were a sufficient reason almost all diseases should haue there beginning in that place Therefore it must be say● that betweene those parts and the qualitie of this disease there is such conformitie and this came by meanes of that ●●fluence for euery thing worketh not vpō euery thing but a certaine vpon a certaine Arist 1. phys so this disease is readier to be first taken in the yard then in the necke head shoulders and not in other places Therefore the influence at that time was an enemy to the head and yard And if it be demaunded why it hath the termination by the mouth it may be aunswered that this procéedeth of the propertie of Quicksiluer which doth drawe humors to those parts or better thus that Quicksiluer by his heate doth warme and make thinne the humors thus prepared to expell them by the vppermost parts therefore Paulus affirmeth it to be hoate and moist in the fourth degrée to whome I doo rather stick then to Auicen who maketh it cold in the second degrée And if it be demaunded why the mouth doth stincke it may be aunswered that this commeth of the Quicksiluer whose fume hath propertie to make the mouth stinck as Auicen saith can 2. cap. 2. Heereupon also commeth paine in the head and hurt in the mouth as it may be gathered of the nature of it vnto this may be added the burnt putrified ill humor which may make the same accidents and therefore it is no maruaile if there be so great paines Now the especiall remedie is that when the humor beginneth to be expelled by the mouth it be diuerted by medicines ministred vpward and downeward to bring it to the lower parts If it be demaunded wherefore some persons being apt to melancholick diseases both in regard of complexion and ill order are not infected I say that perhaps their bodies are more firme and consequently do more hardly receiue an impression then others or by some other propertie which in diuers bodies is found to be diuers as saith Auicen 1. 1. And if it be demaunded why Quicksiluer helpeth or is more auailable thā other medicines except the distilling of Triacle before mentioned it must be aunswered to come of his propertie or rather manifest qualitie because it is hoate and moyst in the highest degrée and the disease cold and drie That the disease is cold and drie it is proued first because it is Saturnall as hath beene shewed secondly because it is found by experience that hoate moyst things helpe also because it hath affinitie with the Leprosie which is a cold and drie disease and with other melancholick diseases againe because it is a long disease for Auicen saith 1. 3. cap. 2. That sicknesse which is prolonged is wholy cold and it is confirmed because we see this matter to putrifie seldome or to cause a Feuer heereupon sayth Galen Nothing doth properly corrupt of cold or drye 2. Booke of Complexions Therefore this must be sayd so to be because the disease is cold and dry If it be demaunded why some medicines seeme to helpe in the beginning but when they are continued they ceasse to helpe it is said that this commeth of a double cause whereof the one is in nature the other in the disease in regard of nature which by continuance doth loath and reioyce in nouelties in regard of the disease because albeit in the beginning the medicine is contrarie to the disease yet in processe the contrarietie ceasseth through custome therefore sayth Auicen There is no passion from a thing accustomably vsed 4. 1. Heereupon we sée some beastes to be contrarie and enemies at the first meeting but by vsuall conuersation that enmitie ceasseth then they become tame and the strife is ended between them this must be also accompted amongst the qualities

had sayd he esteemed it little if the hurt were no worse then he could conceiue and gather by their talke and information he would warrant to cure him so that the marrowe of the bone were not touched with the weapon Al these words were pleasant vnto them and very thankfully receiued But to come vnto the substaunce of this cure may it please the friendly Reader here to commit to thy memorie that in my absence before I did come vnto the second dressing of this wounded man as after it was reported vnto me he did in scornfull maner take off all my medicines from the wound and likewise did most foolishly cut open all the stitches which I had made saying vnto them all I was in a wrong boxe as concerning this cure forsooth colouring his opinion vpon Marianus his author for the fellowe will be oftentimes breathles with alleadging of authors whē his mouth is full of lyes who would haue all wounds lye open without stitching I answere that all good Authors generally commaunde to stitch wounds of necessitie otherwise it would cause a great deformitie But if he had ment smal wounds in the face c. or brused wounds where the stitches will rot out or in venimous bitings or where the wound that is stitched tendeth to impostumation there to cut open the stitches I holde it profitable But to proceede shortly after he repented when it was too late and he was constrayned to confesse his fault and as it is sayd of a learned man to excuse himselfe with noddies had I wist So he proceeded about his busines and did powre into the wound his Oyle or Balme and next applyed his plaister and then did bolster and roule it vp after his owne fashion and good liking which being thus finished he gaue him in the morning to drinke a most rare Quintisence the incredible vertues of it and the rest of his onely remedies shortly you shall heare After his dressing was thus finished then I was sent for vnto the patient and forthwith without delay they did signifie vnto me what he had done and that I should not neede to prepare any thing for the patient for that was done already by one that had warranted to cure him and that without any mayme and in a short time for he was one that by his great learning and long trautile had attayned to such rare and singular remedies as no other man in this part of the world had the like for their wonderfull vertues And new say they sith neither you nor other more could not warrant him wee thanke you for your paynes and that you tould vs so and therefore wée will trouble you no further at this time Well sayd I if that be the cause I care the lesse but he that is now your Chirurgeon whatsoeuer he bee that hath made you all these great promises he might yet haue stayed till I had come vnto you for that you were without payne or any other griefe so that I might haue taken off mine owne medicines and to haue scene in what state and manner I had left it Then riseth out of his Chayre flering and gering this myraculous Surgeon gloriously glittering like the man in the Moone with his bracelets about his armes therein many precious Jewels and stones of Sainct Vincent his Rockes his fingers full of rings a siluer case with Instruments hanging at his girdle and a gilt Spatula sticking in his hat with a Rose and a Crowne fixed on the same standing vpon his comparisons and sayd vnto me that he would open the wound and if it were before my face for sayd he my busines lyeth not in London but abroade in the Countrie and with such persons that I cannot nor will not tarrie for you nor for no other whatsoeuer And now here he did begin to bragge and boast as though al the keyes of knowledge did hang at his girdle For he sayd he had attayned vnto the deepe knowledge of the making a certaine Quintisence which he learned beyond the Seas of his Maister one Bomelious a great Magitian This shamelesse beast letted not to say that if a man did drinke of his Quintisence continually euery day a certayne quantitie the vertues thereof was such that a man should not dye before the day of the great Judgement and that it would preserue a man in that state he was in at thirtie yéeres of age and in the same strength and force of witt although a man were a hundred or sixe score yeeres of age Moreouer his plaister was aunswerable vnto this and forsooth hée called it the only plaister of the world and that he attayned vnto it by his great traueile cost and charge and that it was first sent from God by an Angell vnto a red hill in Almayne wherewas in times past a holie man which wrought great merueiles only with this plaister and he neuer vsed any other medicine but only this His precious Balme or Oyle he says no man had but only he and t●●● it was as rare a thing to bee had or found as to see a blacke Swanne or a winter Swallowe And he called it the secrete of the world which is his common vaunting phraze but God knowes the medicines were no such things but only shadowed vnder the vizard of deceipt and a bayte to steale fame and credite and to catch or scrape vp monie or ware for all is fish that commeth into his net Then this gawdie fellowe with his peerles speeches sayd that he had done more good cures with his sayd Quintisence his only plaister and his precious Balme then any one Surgeon in England had done or could do with all the best medicines and remedies they haue And moreouer sayd that he had spoken nothing but that which he would stand to and proue it And that he did knowe that it was not necessarie for vs that be common Surgeons as it pleased the bragger to call vs to vse such a number of medicines as we do for the best manner of curing sayd he consisteth not in the number and multitude of medicines c. In deede said I I know the best manner of curing consisteth not in the number and multitude of bragging words and therefore I tould him in his infected iudgement he did followe Thessalus the ringleader of these rude and rusticall reasons For he sayd in like maner if all those things which Galen had superfluously written were omitted the arte might be learned in sixe moneths But if that said I were true that you speake I suppose then the arte might be learned in sixe dayes if it did consist but only of your drinke your plaister and Balme And therefore I tould him he was deceiued in his superexcellent skill and that he was contrary vnto all the best learned Authors both old and newe who haue published many excellent and approued inuentions according vnto the cause and nature of the effects which daylie do afflict the bodie of

man for which causes they haue set forth great varietie of many singular and approoued medicines Some of them haue propertie to repell and some do atract some will appease paynes and some do resolue some do mollifie some do suppurare and some which do mundisie some incarnate and some that doe cicatrise and conglutinate Tush sayd he it is not your manuists nor your old basillicon mens practise that is as playn as a packstaffe can be answerable vnto mine I will neuer vse any other remedies but as I haue before spoken of Then I tolde him moreouer that Basillicon made after some mens description is as good an Vnguent as could be vsed in the arte of Chirurgerie for so●ne causes And here further I asked him what his meaning was by old basillicon men He answered it was a word which he had learned amongst some Chirurgeons about London Then I told him agayn that there were in London many reuerent skilfull Chirurgeons although perhaps some of thē haue been greatly abused and defaced with false accusations by certayne noysome Serpents lewd Sycophants and also slaunderous libelling knaues who haue béen rubbed on the gall for their vild tungs and abuses Amongst which sort of gald backt Jades one ragged colt of the same breede which neuer wise man thought to be worth the drawing out of the myre hauing as he openly shewed a guiltie conscience and would needes forsooth thrust himselfe in to make one of that number and being somewhat poreblind played the part of Will Sommer taking Rowland for Oliuer did strike him that was next him But of this motlicote and the rest who now like scrich Owles hide themselues in dennes and deserts for feare of the light and so to bée knowne And of such wicked and vngodly false speakers and backbyters wee shall say more of them at large hereafter if time serueth The which to do I would be loth if the persons were modest but here is no hope in them because they are impudent and yet God doth knowe I had rather derogate from my owne labours then I would deface others without iust cause for that charitie forbiddeth to publish any man in print to the hurt of his good name and credite But as for these factious fellowes possessed with the cursed spirit of enuie scornefulnes and disdaine Notwithstanding their picked speeches as smooth as a Slickstone I think them whatsoeuer they be ●●fi● members to shroude themselues vnder the ro●ffe of any good or godly societie for all such hatefull persons with their deuouring tongues may bee compared vnto furious Dogs which alwaies bite and barke at stones But these despightfull and enuious persons haue neuer spared any whatsoeuer For I reade that Plato though he were a great learned Philosopher doth confesse that he was neuer at any time in such hazard and perrill of his life being in armes at the beseeging of Corinth amongst his knowne enemies as he was in Greece by Xenophon and other his owne schollers his supposed friends And the only cause hereof as it is sayd was hatred and enuie truely it had been good for such vntimely fruite if they had perished in the blossome But all those whose vngodly behauiour is so trecherous vnto their good friends can by no meanes possible bee trustie and faithfull vnto men of whom they haue neuer been beholding vnto for benefites receiued This may seeme straunge chiefly vnto those godly persons which haue neuer been vexed troubled or molested with the perilous stormes and tempestes of such vnknowne pernicious libellours which haue opposed themselues and haue priuilie spred abroad false libels rumors and slaunderous reportes hoping to inioy the fruites of their labours They haue ventured to make shipwracke of other mens good names and credite so that it is vnknowne vnto me as yet what thing a man can so well do or what life he should leade but that these beastlike men would take occasion by surmising of euill to quarrell or cauell at it And I suppose if time and oportunitie did serue their cunning conueiance is such though now perhaps they will for a time lurke and ●●ere like fraudulent Foxes and disemble with the craftie Crocodile yet is their naturall inclination at all tymes comparable in crueltie vnto the furious and mercilesse Tiger or Tigers whelps which euilles are infinite and hard to be auoyded as histories witnesse of the one so experience daylie manifesteth the other A matter of such importance and in my iudgement a thing not to bee permitted or suffered in any good gouernment or Christian common wealth But to leaue these pestilent wée●● and ofscommes of the earth and to returne vnto my former matter from the which I haue digressed And here it is to bée noted that I departed from the aforesayd bragging counterfeyt and fountayne of mischiefe and as I thinke the only scoffer and scorner of the world who defaced some good men that were absent and extolled such as was like vnto himselfe but within seauen dayes after where he promised a mountayne it prooued a molehill And his precious medicines of such great admiration that would do all things did here receiue a merueilous disgrace For they could not worke that effect he looked for and he that was afore a secrete supporter of the Trumpets of sedition a deceiuer of others by procuring of domesticall hatred now he is as it were glad to creepe craule away by owle light praying thē most humbly to hold him excused to speake the best of him And why forsooth he was presently to go into the countrie to attend vpon no small personage there of force he must remayne during pleasure A stale blind shift hatched vp in the dungeon of deceipt as easie to be espied as the nose on a mans face Now agayne he whose ignorance was shadowed with impudencie and maliciously hidden vnder smooth and fayre promises and glorious boastings and by that meanes at his owne pleasure would lay heauie slaunderous burthens vpon other mens shoulders is himselfe found out and his owne doings hath bewrayed himselfe what he is But it is a most true saying of a learned man If our auncient fathers in times past should haue been abashed at the ingratitude and ill disposition of such hatefull abusers wee should at this day haue been in profound ignorance and little difference betweene vs and brute bea●●es To make here an end of this cousoner it was giuen me to vnderstand that shortly after his departure out of London he had intelligence by some of his straglers that the cure was committed agayne into my hands and he also hearing by them that I had promised to note his abuses and did meane to display his doings vnto the world For which cause he was malcontent conceiued a great displeasure indignation against me sayd I did but heape coales vpon myne owne head and therefore he or some other of his bréed should very shortly either by